I Am the True Vine (John 15:1) | Orthodox Cross Vine Monogram | Red and Black Floral Design | Orthodox Lightweight Cotton Unisex TeeI am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in

” you say

like a disease

Resurrection Great Vespers

the icon was transferred from the Saint Sophia (Holy Wisdom) Cathedral in Novgorod to Moscow by Ivan the Terrible: first

Chrysostom was rather a maximalist

they were very dry

“The First-Created Man”

raised up the dead

as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers

The ferocious Maximian executed the healed man

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God: for pulling down strongholds

We can't actually see either of these categories of things with our naked eyes